Table 39. Commodities Raised and Deiivered Under Production Contracts: 2012 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Geographic area 
Farms 
Number 
Geographic area 
Farms 
Number 
BROILERS AND OTHER MEAT-TYPE CHICKENS 
LAYERS - Con. 
United States Total 
States - Con. 
United States 
15,830 
8,159,857,456 
Florida 
19 
294,076 
Georgia 
428 
10,944,069 
States 
Illinois 
7 
123,100 
Indiana 
52 
3,250,655 
Alabama 
2,164 
1,000,938,553 
Iowa 
21 
1,114,651 
Arkansas 
1,985 
975,715,223 
Kentucky 
83 
1 ,536,280 
California 
41 
31,520,639 
Louisiana 
28 
772,236 
Connecticut 
7 
162,000 
Maryland 
8 
427,053 
Delaware 
633 
211,537,760 
Michigan 
2 
(D) 
Florida 
104 
58,573,777 
Minnesota 
41 
1,139,156 
Georgia 
2,576 
1,368,084,390 
Illinois 
7 
142,829 
Mississippi 
195 
3,950,692 
Indiana 
151 
41,472,010 
Missouri 
58 
1 ,289,856 
Iowa 
18 
10,229,000 
Nebraska 
7 
992,229 
New Hampshire 
2 
(D) 
Kentucky 
438 
305,306,532 
New Jersey 
1 
(D) 
Louisiana 
218 
151,912,490 
New York 
6 
71,200 
Maryland 
683 
303,326,274 
North Carolina 
378 
7,825,616 
Michigan 
12 
5,582,000 
Ohio 
62 
3,429,155 
Minnesota 
142 
44,549,122 
Oklahoma 
95 
1 ,741 ,658 
Mississippi 
1,348 
761,135,155 
Pennsylvania 
159 
5,380,093 
Missouri 
356 
272,246,533 
Nebraska 
4 
1 ,208,054 
South Carolina 
47 
1,436,510 
New York 
2 
(D) 
South Dakota 
1 
(D) 
North Carolina 
1,671 
783,717,524 
Tennessee 
86 
1 ,364,339 
T exas 
132 
4,635,676 
Ohio 
175 
42,648,228 
Vermont 
1 
(D) 
Oklahoma 
360 
211,195,704 
Virginia 
96 
1,826,241 
Oregon 
17 
20,897,790 
Washington 
1 
(D) 
Pennsylvania 
469 
164,668,494 
West Virginia 
80 
1,082,341 
South Carolina 
387 
225,838,335 
Wisconsin 
25 
498,908 
South Dakota 
1 
(D) 
Tennessee 
323 
165,766,400 
PULLETS FOR LAYING FLOCK REPLACEMENT 
Texas 
763 
596,078,606 
Virginia 
481 
237,563,811 
United States Total 
Washington 
35 
25,285,024 
United States 
1,384 
111,825,404 
West Virginia 
149 
93,724,823 
Wisconsin 
110 
48,230,376 
States 
EGGS, CHICKEN (DOZENS) 
Alabama 
172 
9,476,627 
Arkansas 
181 
11,295,697 
United States Total 
California 
2 
(D) 
Colorado 
1 
(D) 
United States 
3,144 
1,821,195,529 
Connecticut 
2 
(D) 
Delaware 
1 
(D) 
States 
Florida 
13 
2,214,731 
Georgia 
155 
10,401,459 
Alabama 
372 
1 53,388,383 
Illinois 
2 
(D) 
Arkansas 
456 
165,571,013 
Indiana 
36 
8,517,175 
California 
5 
4,613,725 
Connecticut 
1 
(D) 
Iowa 
20 
2,920,658 
Delaware 
2 
(D) 
Kentucky 
44 
2,230,398 
Florida 
20 
7,048,698 
Louisiana 
9 
1,093,200 
Georgia 
435 
223,142,011 
Maine 
2 
(D) 
Illinois 
8 
2,464,937 
Maryland 
2 
(D) 
Indiana 
71 
102,603,617 
Michigan 
7 
3,844,000 
Iowa 
36 
60,274,897 
Minnesota 
15 
4,943,600 
Mississippi 
66 
5,664,582 
Kentucky 
86 
28,101,337 
Missouri 
68 
4,277,708 
Louisiana 
28 
13,543,295 
Nebraska 
1 
(D) 
Maryland 
11 
14,341,620 
Michigan 
3 
7,737,135 
New Hampshire 
1 
(D) 
Minnesota 
50 
48,389,660 
New York 
4 
228,200 
Mississippi 
198 
71,802,984 
North Carolina 
181 
9,689,213 
Missouri 
65 
29,385,666 
Ohio 
33 
5,007,735 
Nebraska 
9 
43,315,637 
Oklahoma 
41 
1,751,263 
New Hampshire 
2 
(D) 
Pennsylvania 
111 
13,128,289 
New Jersey 
1 
(D) 
South Carolina 
26 
2,602,226 
Tennessee 
45 
1 ,744,485 
New York 
7 
2,313,000 
T exas 
63 
5,167,139 
North Carolina 
392 
154,273,519 
Virginia 
43 
2,143,160 
Ohio 
87 
149,823,646 
Oklahoma 
103 
37,218,049 
West Virginia 
30 
1 ,489,639 
Pennsylvania 
212 
226,168,807 
Wisconsin 
7 
233,278 
South Carolina 
49 
32,062,281 
South Dakota 
2 
(D) 
TURKEYS 
Tennessee 
87 
27,061,512 
Texas 
138 
102,537,150 
United States Total 
Vermont 
1 
(D) 
United States 
1,903 
195,957,616 
Virginia 
97 
34,537,919 
Washington 
3 
32,750,830 
States 
West Virginia 
80 
19,651,587 
Wisconsin 
27 
15,153,552 
Arkansas 
218 
27,775,584 
California 
17 
3,676,925 
LAYERS 
Illinois 
22 
1,680,558 
Indiana 
174 
12,115,276 
United States Total 
Iowa 
52 
6,412,283 
Kansas 
6 
257,100 
United States 
2,949 
72,410,155 
Kentucky 
1 
(D) 
Maryland 
3 
124,300 
States 
Michigan 
1 
(D) 
Minnesota 
74 
10,857,330 
Alabama 
370 
7,813,621 
Arkansas 
451 
8,759,304 
Missouri 
241 
16,108,706 
California 
4 
208,561 
Nebraska 
1 
(D) 
Connecticut 
1 
(D) 
New York 
1 
(D) 
Delaware 
2 
(D) 
North Carolina 
419 
51,060,655 
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2012 Census of Agricuiture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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